Environmental campaigners have called on the government to learn from its own successes after official figures showed the use of single-use supermarket plastic bags had fallen 98% since retailers in England began charging for them in 2015.

Annual distribution of plastic carrier bags by seven leading grocery chains plummeted from 7.6bn in 2014 to 133m last year, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said on Monday.

    • @Wooly@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work? Either you scan them, or tap however many bags at the end. Not both.

      Btw you don’t need to @ me when replying, this is double bag scanning but for Lemmy.

      • Chris Young
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        11 year ago

        Yes, that was kind of the point.

        (The @ ing is because I’m replying from Mastodon, it does that by default)